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Livre de perspective

出版	Iehan le Royer, 1560
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2HtmlWn8_AEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋It is through this work that Jean Cousin became known as the major theorist of artists' perspective in sixteenth-century France, and was credited with perfecting the tiers points technique that was somewhat confusingly described by Pelerin at the beginning of the century. In his hands the tiers point technique "became a reliable, comprehensive and substantially accurate method for tackling the construction of space and the foreshortening of solid bodies" (Kemp, The science of art). The large woodcut frontispiece of the Livre de perspective is well known and often reproduced. It is "singularly inventive with its foreshortened perspective, displaying five polyhedrons set in a framework supported by acrobatic nudes. Later generations elaborated such frameworks in the painting of baroque ceilings. While the woodcut's architectonic perspective gives it added dimension in depth, it suggsets the decoartive schemes in wood, paint and plaster relief of Rosso and Primaticcio at Fontainebleau, or an engraving of a ceiling by a follower, Fantuzzi" (Wick, Sixteenth century architectural books 30). Jean Cousin the Elder (1501-c. 1560) was also a painter of considerable significance: "the most important of the painters working independently of the Fontainebleau school" (Blunt, Art and architecture in France p. 112).